Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Undeserving Nobel prizewinners
Nowadays many people tend to castigate the Nobel Prize committee for making unwise decisions, typically the award of the prize to Obama, an award which is frequently compared with the Kissinger award. This is because of Obama's furtherance of the Afghanistan war and probable healthcare policy failures.
IMO: Obama always said plainly, prior to being elected, that he was going to further the Afghan war vigorously, so obviously those of his supporters who condemn him for being a turncoat are quite wrong. People tend to hear what they want rather than what is said I'm afraid. I think there are probably other ways the war could be furthered and I have mentioned some in this blog, but that's hardly the point.
IMO: On the healthcare issue, of course I understand the points than Sen. Kucinich and others have made and sympathise in most details. But any improvement at all in the present bad US healthcare system is an achievement for Obama and much to be welcomed. Elsewhere in the world the current US healthcare system is perhaps best compared to the death camp system in WW2 Germany or the worst nightmares of Stalin's regime. Amazing if any improvement can occur, present attempts towards progress is like closing down 'only one or two Gulags' in Russia or like a Hitler deputy shutting down Auschwitz and then getting complaints that there is still Buchenwald.
IMO: Obama always said plainly, prior to being elected, that he was going to further the Afghan war vigorously, so obviously those of his supporters who condemn him for being a turncoat are quite wrong. People tend to hear what they want rather than what is said I'm afraid. I think there are probably other ways the war could be furthered and I have mentioned some in this blog, but that's hardly the point.
IMO: On the healthcare issue, of course I understand the points than Sen. Kucinich and others have made and sympathise in most details. But any improvement at all in the present bad US healthcare system is an achievement for Obama and much to be welcomed. Elsewhere in the world the current US healthcare system is perhaps best compared to the death camp system in WW2 Germany or the worst nightmares of Stalin's regime. Amazing if any improvement can occur, present attempts towards progress is like closing down 'only one or two Gulags' in Russia or like a Hitler deputy shutting down Auschwitz and then getting complaints that there is still Buchenwald.
# posted by uv : 7:48 PM
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